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Shocking Concession Comes out of the Government in Eighth Circuit SORNA Case

By Corey Rayburnyung

I have been aghast that district courts have allowed prosecutions under SORNA based upon interstate travel that occurred before the passage of the Act. I began my forthcoming Federal Sentencing Reporter outlining one such egregious case:In 1992, Glen Aubrey Pitts was convicted in Virginia of two counts of oral sodomy and two counts of indecent liberties with a minor under his control.  Upon release, Pitts was required by state law to register as a sex offender and did so until October of 1998. Sometime between October 1998 and November 2001, Pitts moved from Virginia to Louisiana.  Pitts never registered, as was required, in Louisiana. In 2006, several years after Pitts moved to Louisiana, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the abduction of Adam Walsh, President Bush signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (?AWA?)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).